aktywność religijna alternatywne formy edukacji
alternatywne style życia i bunt codzienności
awangarda, neo-awangarda
cenzura dysydenci partyjni
emigracja/wygnanie
film inwigilacja
krytyka naukowa kultura ludowa
kultura młodzieżowa
kultura popularna kultura undergroundowa
literatura i krytyka literacka muzyka nauka krytyczna
niezależne dziennikarstwo ochrona środowiska
ofiary prześladowań autorytarnego/totalitarnego reżimu
opozycja demokratyczna
publikacje podziemne
ruch kobiecy
ruchy broniące mniejszości
ruchy broniące praw człowieka
ruchy etniczne ruchy filozoficzne/ideowe ruchy narodowościowe
ruchy pokojowe ruchy społeczne
ruchy studenckie sztuka medialna
sztuki piękne
sztuki wizualne
teatr i Sztuki Performatywne
wolność sumienia
artefakty
dokumenty prawne i/lub finansowe elementy sztuki użytkowej
film
fotografie
grafika
inne inne obiekty artystyczne literatura podziemna
meble
nagrania dźwiękowe
nagrania muzyczne
nagrania video
obrazy
odzież pamiątki
publikacje
rysunki i karykatury
rzeźby rękopisy wyposażenie techniczne
Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922-2010) was a professor of Lithuanian literature. In 1961, she was dismissed from her position as a lecturer at Vilnius University because of her 'nationalism'. After that, she found a position at the Lithuanian Institute of History. While she had other research topics at the institute, she also worked on Lithuanian literature, researching a very disapproved of topic at the time, the work and activities of the Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (1862-1932). Maironis was a Catholic priest, who used strong patriotic and nationalist expression in his works, and the Soviet regime had to consider how to interpret his legacy, what parts of his work should be available to society, and what should be seen as religious.
The collection of the writer Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas holds various documents: notes, correspondence and manuscripts. The documents illustrate very well the situation of intellectuals and writers in Soviet Lithuania. The government considered Mykolaitis-Putinas to be a famous Lithuanian writer, but on the other hand it tried to control his creative work. During the Late Stalinist period, the writer was often criticised by Party officials.
Vjesnik Newspaper Documentation is an archival collection created in the Vjesnik newspaper publishing enterprise from 1964 to 2006. It includes about twelve million press clippings, organized into six thousand topics and sixty thousand dossiers on public persons. Inter alia, it documents various forms of cultural opposition in the former Yugoslavia, but also in other communist countries in Europe and worldwide.
Vytautas Skuodis (1929-2016) was a Lithuanian scientist, Soviet dissident and former political prisoner. From 1979, he was a member of the dissident organisation the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1978, he initiated and edited the journal Perspektyvos (Perspectives), the most recognised underground publication among the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The Vytautas Skuodis collection holds various manuscripts of Skuodis’ monograhs, a PhD dissertation, articles, lectures, letters, reviews of diploma works by students, notes, memoirs and diaries. These documents are relevant to the topic of cultural opposition, because they reveal personally the involvement of Skuodis and other people in anti-Soviet activities.
The Václav Havel Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature contains letters of the dramatist, poet and president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel (1936–2011) to his wife Olga, written from prison between 1979 and 1983. Havel’s unique prison correspondence documents the life of this significant artist and philosopher, as well as the life of his wife before 1989.